Youth Development

Communities In Schools of Atlanta: Managing Rapid Local Expansion

Communities In Schools of Atlanta bounced back from financial difficulties when it was chosen to implement the national Project GRAD program in Atlanta schools. But the rapid growth resulting from this opportunity posed new challenges, including the risks of relying on a single dominant funding source. Bridgespan worked with Communities in Schools to both understand and navigate the risks while managing its rapid growth.

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Nurse-Family Partnership: Organizing for National Expansion

How could the Nurse-Family Partnership make its proven model for improving lives available to every low-income, first-time mother in the country? Bridgespan worked with the organization to create a strategy that would help it take a more purposeful approach to growth in order to develop a national presence.

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Putting Clients at the Center: A Planning Guide for Multi-Service Organizations

This planning guide is for multi-service organizations interested in providing integrated services to clients, whether youth or adults, so that these clients can achieve long-term positive outcomes. Based primarily on the experiences of Four Oaks, a large multi-service organization serving children and families in eastern Iowa, the guide lays out a three-step approach to putting clients at the center.

Four Pillars of Growth for Youth-Serving Nonprofits

In 2009 the Bridgespan Group set out to study the factors critical to the growth of youth-serving organizations. We discovered that growth was rarely an unexpected windfall, but rather, more often the reward for nonprofit leaders' greater emphasis on key management disciplines.

Growing Network Impact

For decades, the primary pressure facing nonprofit networks was to build a bigger footprint—be in more places, serve more people. Now that pressure is being equaled by another: to get better. This executive summary outlines five critical elements for network improvement.

The View from the Cliff: Government-Funded Nonprofits Are Looking Out on Steep Cuts and an Uncertain Future

With most stimulus money gone and large local, state and federal spending cuts looming, a Bridgespan Group study examines how government-funded nonprofits are faring and what they believe the future holds for them.